The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-04-15

Geo. II. Fox: eyes, travel and traffic
is comparatively light. You see mostsof
the merchants went East and bought
their goods. and had them shipped be-
fore the new law took effect. Chicago
without a doubt, done more business in
the month of March, than during any
other month for many years past"
Sheriff Piper:-''Say, have you any
| idea of the number of John Anderson's
there are in the county, Asummons was
placed in my hands few days ago to
serve on a man by this name, and by
actual count travelled 104 miles before
| struck the John Anderson who would
acknowledge he was the individual want
ed. served the notice on 90 different
John Andersons. My fee on this work
will not pay for the oil used on the bug
gy, say nothing of time and expenses.
Oh, yes; sheriff has soft time" and
Mr.. Piper walked away smiling.
Real estate man (: "You can say that
never, in the history of Mankato, has
| there been such demand for real estate
as now, and prices are continually on
the increase. ! sold q residence pro
perry the other day for 81 600 which
could have been purchased last spring
for 81 900. There have been several
other lots sold at much greater advance
than this. Yes, you can say that there
ia not n better city i'm the state for men
to invest in real estate than MankatO.
And good many are taking advantage
of the opportunity"
"Why is it," inquired stranger this
morning, "that houses are so scare In
Mankato Il mean houses that one can
rent. / have spent the greater portion
} of n week in vain endeavor to 1nd
something that suits me. 1t Is HOB
sons choice. There are one or two
, places not Just to my taste which can be
had and must take one or the other.
It would seem that some ofyour capital
lists could see the excellent opening for
the organization OF a syndicate to erect
block of commodious and convenient
tenement houses"
GAYLORD Lamm: What Mankato ought
D to do is TO organize a stock company tc
build hotel. / believe that the STOCK
would all be taken, and though the dlvi
dends might not be large, l think the
scheme would pay. Then we would
have a first-class hotel. Other cities
have organized stock companies for this
purpose and see no reason why Man
} kato should not take hold of it.
&C. Burt: "I've heard that Mr.. Hol
brook has given up his hotel project.
tell YOU, this is no million dollar hotel
!, town. we no doubt would like it, but
the thing can't be done and charge ~ {
, day, and you can't get more from the
travelling public here" Will this alter
your plans? "Not ut all, sir! You see
my property has the location, and thu
, rent there is always a good item. 1t IL
centrally located, and convenient tt
,t business. The new part will be finished
up i'm modern style and with all con
|, yeniences for the guests"
First citizen: 81 see by the Minneapo
lis papers this morning that the PaI
Handle road has unearthed big mes
of robbers"
Second ditto: "Why, yes; but that's
back number. Didn't you read the de
tailed account of the affair in yesterday
DAILY FREE PRESS? You don't have t.
wait day or two any more to get the
latest news"
J. Il. Fowler: 81 inspected my first lol
of oil this morning, and it made me
: about sick. Am going to Madelia after
dinner"
Mr.. Fowler ought to get a scent from
: an Ohio oil we'll before he lets the rein
ed stuff make him sick.
The clock in the city recorders offic,
stopped this morning, and thus far ha
resisted all efforts to start it. City Re
corder Wilkins says the clock differs only
from "Grandfather's clock" which stop
ped when the old man died, in that tn,
> office clock anticipated his vacating the
office, by about "a hours. The clOcl
heretofore has always been a trusted
servant.
S. F. Barney: Eyes sir, 1 belive THU
Daily has come to stay. / read it, an(
but a short time before people will bt
hungry forit."
A. X. Eckle: "Hotel or no hotel, ] an
bound to erect my building on Jackson
street. We propose to make this one OF
the important business streets of the
city. You can say, by way of parenthe'
sis, that don't expect to build an elab.
crate structure for myself, but that
am furnishing elegant monuments al
very reasonable figures"
Mayor Pfau: "The police force will re-
main unchanged at least till their sue
cessors are appointed"
Chief WEIGH: eyes sir, I think the new
arrangement in giving each man his reg
u.ar beat good idea, and the regula.
ton, preventing officers while on duty,
from visit saloons is another good idea
No policeman now is supposed to enter
saloons unless his duties call HIM there
Citizen with bank account: 81 tell
you what it is, we haven't bank here
that is arranged right, and now when
the doors are open any one passing along
the street can see just about the amount
of bills you are coming away with, or
depositing. l understand that one of
our banks will occupy part of the new
Mankato House building, and that the
arrangement of the room will be such,
that those transacting business there will
be out of the view of the public. Good
thing" and the disgruntled depositor
moved on casting his eagle eye over the
last entry in his bank book, while the
reporter persued his way in an opposite
4 direction, meditating on the remarks.
ending with the conclusion that some
people would "kick" ifthey were playing
foot ball.
| A postal official: "That was a good
suggestion you made the other day
about change in the customary way of
addressing letters, and there wonld not
be half as much mail missent if it was
followed. Instead of first writing the
name of the person to whom the letter
is to be sent, the name of the post office
| should be written, and directly under it
| to the right, the name of the county and
State. The name ofthe person for whom
the letter is intended, should then be
written in the lower left hand corner.
This system would save many mistakes
| and delays"
s. +. HolbroOk: at is amusing to hear
the ridiculous stories on the street since
| it was proposed to build new hotel.
You can't find anyone but what can give
you "tip." In fact, it has been built,
furnished, torn down, remodeled, sold
out and never bull. at all by these know
| ing ones. Now, there is an individual
here who used to work for me, and
friend of mine overheard this gentleman
talking to party of friends in very
wise way. He said that he had worked
for me number of years and had seen
me pile one dollar upon another until he
left my service, and as near as he could
| figure, Il was worth about $5,0OO; then
he added. How can he build $4,000
hotel?' Now, he had charge of a very
small department of my business; he
was in no position to know anything
about what was doing. might haye
made or lost $4,000 in a day and he